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Good governance and bad policy: the perils of international organizational overextension.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Nov99, Vol. 6 Issue 4, p401-424. 24p.
Abstract: A significant adaptation has recently occurred in the mandate of the International Monetary Fund. With no alteration to its legal charter, the Fund has effectively become the promoter of a putative consensus among its leading member states on intrusive...
Legacies and innovations in global economic governance since Bretton Woods.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2019, Vol. 26 Issue 6, p1089-1111. 23p.
Abstract: The international economic system that emerged after the 1944 Bretton Woods conference became the most durable international arrangement devoted to economic openness. Seventy-five years after the conference, however, global shifts in power, institution...
US antidumping actions against China: the impact of China's entry into the World Trade Organization.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2010, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p562-588. 27p. 3 Charts, 6 Graphs.
Abstract: This paper engages in a preliminary examination of US antidumping actions against China and addresses the conditions under which US industries are likely to initiate antidumping petitions against Chinese firms and obtain affirmative antidumping rulings...
Smoke screen? The globalization of production, transnational lobbying and the international political economy of plain tobacco packaging.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Feb2017, Vol. 24 Issue 1, p87-118. 32p.
Abstract: In 2012, Australia became the first country in the world to introduce plain tobacco packaging in an effort to reduce tobacco consumption. This move was vehemently opposed by the tobacco industry, which challenged it on several levels: nationally, bilat...
Regionalism from without: External involvement of the EU in regionalism in southern Africa.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2013, Vol. 20 Issue 4, p917-946. 30p.
Abstract: Theories and analyses of regionalism, from both ‘orthodox' and ‘critical' strands of international political economy (IPE), have tended to conceptualise regional integration as a process led byintra-regionalactors typically in reaction to external forc...
Prospects for deepening Mercosur integration: Economic asymmetry and institutional deficits.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Jun2013, Vol. 20 Issue 3, p515-540. 26p.
Abstract: Mercosur faces a number of challenges in furthering its regional integration. This article considers whether theories developed for European regionalism, such as neo-functionalism and liberal inter-governmentalism, provide a suitable framework for anal...
Rights redux: the return of human rights at the WTO.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2023, p1-23. 23p.
Abstract: Abstract The conventional wisdom is that human rights have long been off the negotiating agenda at the World Trade Organization (WTO). The failed attempt by Northern states to include a ‘social clause’ in WTO rules during the late 1990s and early 2000s...
The tools of globalization: ways of regulating and the structure of the international regime for pharmaceuticals.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Dec2015, Vol. 22 Issue 6, p1249-1275. 27p.
Abstract: This article investigates the relationship between regulatory globalization and neoliberal standard-setting arrangements building on industry capacities and responsibilities. Focusing on international pharmacovigilance, it recounts the history of the W...
Standards, techno-economic networks, and playing fields: Performing the global market economy.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2010, Vol. 17 Issue 3, p507-536. 30p. 1 Graph.
Abstract: This paper explores the construction of what the authors term a 'tripartite standards regime' (TSR) by looking at the pragmatic emergence of standards development organizations (SDOs) and national accreditation bodies (NABs). The authors explain how, t...
Crossing the river by feeling the stones: where the WTO is going after Seattle, Doha and Cancun.
Publication Type: Academic Journal
Source(s): Review of International Political Economy. Aug2004, Vol. 11 Issue 3, p574-596. 23p.
Abstract: When we ask where the WTO is going after its debacle in Seattle its success in Doha, and the failure in Cancun, we find neither imminent collapse nor a new grand design. My analysis of the difference between these ministerial meetings separates the int...